EMILY DICKINSON

BIRTH AND DEATH

• Born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts
• Died in her hometown in 1836
• She was only 56 years old

LIFE

• Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for one year
• Loved Reverend Charles Wadsworth
• He visited her home in 1860 then left for the West Coast
• Dickinson fllowed his departure with many heartsick poems
• She lived isolated from the world beginning in the 1860's

FAME

• Dickinson was not publicly recognized durin her lifetime
• She sent many of her poems via letters to her friends
• Her first volume of work was published in 1890, four years after her death
• Her last volume was published in 1955, a solid 59 years after her death
• She also never titled her poetry so it is named based on the first line

WORKS

• Because I could not stop for Death
• Im nobody! Who are you?
• I dreaded that first Robin
• A bird came down the walk
• I had no time to hate because